This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes the manner in which EverNovel, operating the EverNovel service (“EverNovel”, “we,” or “us”)as well as all related websites, networks, applications, and other services provided by us and on which a link to this Policy is displayed (collectively, together with the Site, our “Service”) collect, use, disclose and otherwise process Personal Information. “Personal Information” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual.
In EverNovel, we pay great attention to your private information. We hope you will understand how EverNovel uses your information while using EverNovel services. Therefore, I hope you will take the time to read the following policy carefully.
Information collected or received from you
We collect and process basic information for running our business and provide our service to you. You can usually choose what information you want to provide, but in some cases we need to require some certain information which help not only you use but also us provide service.
We collect or receive information in a few different ways, depending on what services you use and how you use them:
1. Information provided by you
We collect information you provide when you create a EverNovel account, upload content, or otherwise use the service, including:
a. Identification information. For example, your email address, username, and authentication credentials used to sign up or log in. If you choose to add a photo, location, or other optional details to your profile, you should be aware that such information is public, and therefore visible to anyone who visits your profile page. And in the future, we will launch the online personal home page. It may also be visible to anyone who visits your personal home page, although we will provide the invisible setting option.
b. Information about trading in EverNovel. If you purchase or carry out other transactions (such as exchanging commodities in real) in EverNovel, we will collect information about these purchases or transactions. This information includes your payment information, such as order information of Google play and Apple store, and distribution and contact information, such as Full name, Country, State, Province, Region, City, Address line, Email address, Zip code and Phone number. We use this information to check your consumption and logistics distribution.
c. The using situation of you. We collect how you use the information of our product, such as the content and type of activities, the functions used, the operation of the execution, the accounts interacting with others and your online time, frequency, and length of your online time. This information enables us to optimize our product services and allow you to recognize products.
2. Information collected from the service you use
We collect information about you and the devices you use to access the service, such as your computer, mobile phone, or tablet.
The information that we collect includes:
a. Device information. We may collect device-specific information (such as your hardware model, operating system version, unique device identifiers, and mobile network information including phone number). EverNovel may associate your device identifiers or phone number with your EverNovel user account.
b. Log information. When you use our services or view content provided on the service, we may automatically collect and store certain information in server logs. This may include:
Details of how you used our service, such as your search queries, reading history, bookmarks, and transaction history;
Internet protocol (IP) address;
Device event information such as crashes, system activity, hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and referral URL;
Cookies that may uniquely identify your browser or your EverNovel user account.
c. Location information. When you use a location-enabled device, we may collect and process information about your approximate location, like the GPS signals sent by a mobile device. We may also use various technologies to determine approximate location, such as sensor data from your device that may, for example, provide information on nearby Wi-Fi access points and cell towers, for advertising, analytics, or to protect access to content that is geo-locked due to regional licensing restrictions.
d. Unique application numbers. Certain services include a unique application number. This number and information about your installation (for example, the operating system type and application version number) may be sent to EverNovel when you install or uninstall that service or when that service periodically contacts our servers, such as for automatic or required updates.
e. Local storage. We may collect and store information (including personal information) locally on your device using mechanisms such as browser web storage (including HTML 5) and application data caches.
f. Cookies and anonymous identifiers. We use various technologies to collect and store information when you visit our services, and this may include sending one or more cookies or anonymous identifiers to your device. We also use cookies and anonymous identifiers when you interact with services we offer to our partners, such as advertising services or EverNovel features that may appear on other sites.
3. Information from Third Parties
Some members or visitors may choose to connect to EverNovel or register a EverNovel account by using an external third-party application, such as Facebook, Twitter and Google. If you choose to connect your account to a third-party application, EverNovel may receive information from that application and use it as part of providing our Services to you. For example:
a. Account creation and authentication. If you sign up for a EverNovel account using Facebook, Twitter or Google, we receive your email address, photo, and other public profile information, which is then used to create your EverNovel profile and subsequent log in authentication.
4. Instructions of permissions we acquired
a. Permission instructions of phone device
Get mobile phone configuration: Collecting your device number, so that we can synchronous data after your log-in.
Get location information: Collecting your location, so that we can recommend the local content to you.
b. Permission instructions of other devices
android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE:Access WiFi connection status
android.permission.INTERNET:Access the network
android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE:Read device information
How we use your information
We rely on a number of legal bases to collect, use, or process your information in the ways described in this policy. These bases include where:
necessary to provide the services to you or perform the contractual obligations in our Terms of Service;
necessary to satisfy legal obligation, to exercise or defend legal claims, or to comply with a court order;
you have consented to the processing, which you can revoke at any time;
you have expressly made the information public.
We may use information about you for a number of purposes, including:
1. Providing and improving our services
Providing, maintaining, and improving our services, including the specific EverNovel features you choose to use;
a. Personalizing your use of the services;
b. Developing new products, services, and features;
c. Determining whether the services or specific content are available in your country;
d. Recording and displaying your historical transaction information;
e. Measuring, tracking, and analyzing trends in usage in connection with your use or the performance of our services.
2. Communicating with you about our services
a. Sending you information you have requested from us or that we think you may find useful, such as updates or changes to our services;
b. Collecting feedbacks about our services;
c. Contacting you to resolve disputes, provide assistance, or notify you of changes to our polices or terms.
3. Service providers
a. EverNovel engages with third-party companies and service providers (such as payment processors and analytics providers) to help us provide or improve our Services. These third parties have limited access to your information, and may only use the information provided to perform specific tasks on our behalf.
4. Aggregated information
a. Aggregated information may be used to analyze performance or otherwise improve our Services, but it will be aggregated and anonymized so that personal information is not revealed.
When and with whom we share information
We may share information about you as follows:
1. With your consent
We will share personal information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of EverNovel when we have your consent to do so, for example at your direction or when you authorize a third party application to access your information.
2. With our affiliates
We provide information to our affiliates or other trusted businesses or persons to process it for us, such as accounting for the Ad Revenue Program, based on our instructions and in compliance with our Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
3. With third parties
In connection with providing, maintaining, or improving our services, including service providers who access information about you to perform services on our behalf, such as transaction processing and fraud prevention, or third parties that run advertising campaigns, provide special offers, or other activities on our behalf or in connection with our services. Please be aware that when you use third-party sites or services, their own terms and privacy policies will govern your use of those sites or services
4. Safety and compliance with the law
If we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to:
a. Meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request.
b. Enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations.
c. Detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues.
d. Protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of EverNovel , our users, or the public as required or permitted by law.
5. Restrictions on User Comments as follows
1. The comment should not contain explicitly pornographic content.
2. The comment should not contain threatening, harassing, bullying, deceptive, defamatory, abusive, degrading, racist, intimidating, or fraudulent words.
3. The purpose of comment should not to abuse, malign, or ridicule a person.
Note: Users have right to report comments once the comments do not conform to one or more of above requirements.